Memorandum-tag.



No` 629,6!6. Paented July 25, |899. L. J. SCOTT @L F. A. CAMERON.

MEMORANDUM TAG.

(Application med Dee. 1, less.)

(No Model.)

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

LUOIEN J. SCOTT AND FRANKLIN A. CAMERON, OF BOGUE CHITTO, MISSISSIPPI'.

MEMORANDUM-TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part Qf Letters Patent No. 629,616, dated July 25, 1899. Application tied Detemteri, 189s; serial No. 698,017. No moda To .a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, LUOIEN J. SCOTT and FRANKLIN A. CAMERON,citizens of the United States, residing at Bogue Ohitto, in the county of Lincoln and State of Mississipphphave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Memorandum-Tags; and We do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Hats, shoes, shirts, and other merchandise of a similar nature are ordinarily shipped to retailers in cases containing assorted sizes of the articles, and on the outside of each case is generally pasted or otherwise secured a labelindicating the contents of the case-that is, the number of articles of each size contained therein. These articles are, as a rule, sold directly from the cases in Which they are received, and after a few have been disposed of the memorandum on the label is valueless as showing the contents of the box, as all of the articles of one size may be disposed of and some of the other sizes removed. In order to provide means whereby the contents of cases containing articles of merchandise similar to those above named may'be'determined at all times, we have devised a tag to be applied either to thecase or to one of the articles contained therein, which carries a number of detachable tabs arranged in series one above the other, all of the tabs in each series containing a nuniber'indicating one of the sizes of the articles contained in the case, the upper or outer tab containing the number of the articles of a certain size, the tabs next beneath the upper or outer one containing numbers Which run in a decreasing arithmetical progression, so that when one article of a size is removed from the case in which it is contained the corresponding tab on thetag may be removed and the tab which is then exposed will indicate the number of articles of a certain size contained within the case.

The invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 represents a face view of one of the tags employed in connection with hat- Cases; Fig. 2, a similar View of the tag employed in connection with shoe-cases; Fig. 3, a similar view of the tag used in connection with shirt'cases, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section on the line :n w of Fig. 1.`

Like reference-letters indicate like parts in the different views.

The tag A is constructed of cardboard, stiff Manila paper, or other suitable material, and at the upper end thereof contains blanks for the insertion of Written memoranda indicating the box-number, the lot-number, the style, the color, the cost, and the price. This memoranda, however, may be changed according to the class of merchandise in connection with Which the tag is intended to be used. Secured to the -tag A by eyelets B or in any'other suitable manner are transversely-extending strips C C, made of paper or other like material and having depending from the body thereof detachable` tongues or tabs D D. A line of perforations E may, if desired, be lo` cated between the tabs D and the body of the strips C. The strips are arranged in series, one on top of the other, so that the tabs D on the outer strips cover the corresponding tabs on the inner or under strips.

When the tag is to b'e used in connection with hat-cases, the lower end thereof is preferably cut away along diagonal lines, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings, and the tag itself inserted within the band on one of the hats.

When used in connection with a shoe-case, the tag, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, is provided with a suitable catch F, which enables-the same to be readily attached to or disconnected frorn the case.

`When used in connection with shirts, the

tag, as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings,

is provided with a triangular-shaped buttonhole G, which terminates in an eye H, the said buttonhole being adapted to receive a button on one of the shirts in the case. l

In using va tag' constructed as above described there is placed upon each of the tabs D of each series, preferably at a point near its lower end, a memorandum indicative of the size of the articles contained within the case, and on the outer of said tabs is placed the number of said articles of each size which the case contains. Say, for example, there IOO are four hats in the case of size No. 7. The numeral 7, indicating the size,\vill be placed upon each tab of one series at a point near its lower end, and the number of hats of size 7 contained in the case-that is, 4 --will be placed at a point near the upper end of said tab. Eachof the tabs beneath the one containing 7, which indicates the size, will also contain the number 7; but the one just beneaththat which contains the numeral 4, indicating the number of hats of that size, will contain the numeral 3, and the one beneath the one containing the numeral 3 Will have upon it the numeral 2, and so on. When, therefore, one hat of size Not 7 is sold, the outer tab, indicating1 the size No. 7, will be removed and thrown away, and the tag will then indicate that there are three hats 0f size No. 7 remaining in the case.

The above explanation applies to all sizes and all numbers of any articles which the case may contain.

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by lietters Patent, is-

A memorandum-tag, for the purpose described, consisting of a body and a series of strips secured thereto and arranged one above the other, said strips being provided with iutegral tabs or tongues, and said tabs being disconnected and separated from the adjacent tabs on the same strip, the tabs of each series containing the same numerals indicative of size and dierent numerals indicative of the number of articles, the latter numerals decreasing in arithmetical progression `from the upper to the lower tabs. i

In testimony whereof We affix our signaL tures in presence of two witnesses.

LUCIEN J SCOTT. FRANKLIN A. CAMERON. Titnessesz S. P. OLIVER, R. C. APPLEWHITE. 

